“Challenger was lost because NASA came to believe its own propaganda. The agency's deeply impacted cultural hubris had it that technology-engineering-would always triumph over random disaster if certain rules were followed. The engineers-turned-technocrats could not bring themselves to accept the psychology of machines with abandoning the core principle of their own faith: equations, geometry, and repetition-physical law, precision design, and testing-must defy chaos.” IfsBelieveLawCertainLostAcceptingPrinciplesTechnologyPsychologyDesignMachinesSafetyChaosCoreDisasterTriumphPropagandaAgencyAviationEngineeringEngineersRepetitionTestingEquationsGeometryPrecisionNasaHubris Book:This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
“No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.” MatterNumbersMachinesSafetyAviationEngineeringEngineersTestedAstronautMarginsSafety In Numbers Book:This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age Source: This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age
